PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
....is one in which Justices judge every case that comes before them against the law of the land, the only edict that the American people have agreed to be guided by....
....the United States Constitution.
1. Any who use the term 'interpret' when referring to the job of a Supreme Court Justice are wrong.
Interpret
Explain the meaning of (information or actions)
‘the evidence is difficult to interpret’
interpret | Definition of interpret in English by Oxford Dictionaries
Bulletin:
The United States Constitution is written in English!!!!!
It is to be applied.....not interpreted.
Apply
Be applicable or relevant.
‘prices do not apply to public holiday periods’
apply | Definition of apply in English by Oxford Dictionaries
One promises to obey the written text, uses same in deciding whether questions that come before the court are
a. consistent with the language, the text, of the Constitution.
or
b. not covered by the Constitution, and allow lower courts to pass judgment.
2. The Founders and classical liberals....what are called conservatives today, recognize the America that was memorialized in our founding documents, an American based on individualism, free markets, and limited constitutional government.
3. "[A] limited Constitution ... can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing. ... To deny this would be to affirm ... that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid..."
Alexander Hamilton
4. Lino Graglia speaks of the powers that judges and Justices have assumed:
“If the framers—the authors and, most important, the ratifiers of the Constitution—had decided to grant the power, one would expect to see it, like the analogous presidential veto power, not only plainly stated but limited by giving conditions for its exercise and by making clear provision for Congress to have the last word. It appears that the framers mistakenly envisioned the power as involving merely the application of clear rules to disallow clear violations, something that in fact rarely occurs.”
Professor Lino Graglia, https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/0817946020_1.pdf
5. This is the corruption that has seeped into our judiciary:
"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is."
Charles Evans Hughes.
One can only hope that Judge Kavanaugh is the textualist he is reputed to be.
....the United States Constitution.
1. Any who use the term 'interpret' when referring to the job of a Supreme Court Justice are wrong.
Interpret
Explain the meaning of (information or actions)
‘the evidence is difficult to interpret’
interpret | Definition of interpret in English by Oxford Dictionaries
Bulletin:
The United States Constitution is written in English!!!!!
It is to be applied.....not interpreted.
Apply
Be applicable or relevant.
‘prices do not apply to public holiday periods’
apply | Definition of apply in English by Oxford Dictionaries
One promises to obey the written text, uses same in deciding whether questions that come before the court are
a. consistent with the language, the text, of the Constitution.
or
b. not covered by the Constitution, and allow lower courts to pass judgment.
2. The Founders and classical liberals....what are called conservatives today, recognize the America that was memorialized in our founding documents, an American based on individualism, free markets, and limited constitutional government.
3. "[A] limited Constitution ... can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing. ... To deny this would be to affirm ... that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid..."
Alexander Hamilton
4. Lino Graglia speaks of the powers that judges and Justices have assumed:
“If the framers—the authors and, most important, the ratifiers of the Constitution—had decided to grant the power, one would expect to see it, like the analogous presidential veto power, not only plainly stated but limited by giving conditions for its exercise and by making clear provision for Congress to have the last word. It appears that the framers mistakenly envisioned the power as involving merely the application of clear rules to disallow clear violations, something that in fact rarely occurs.”
Professor Lino Graglia, https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/0817946020_1.pdf
5. This is the corruption that has seeped into our judiciary:
"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is."
Charles Evans Hughes.
One can only hope that Judge Kavanaugh is the textualist he is reputed to be.